Letter to J. V. Stalin for the Politbureau of the C.C., R.C.P.(B.) with a Draft Decision on the Composition of the All-Russia C.E.C.

Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

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ComradeStalin for thePolitbureau:

Thesession of the All-Russia Central Executive Committee has shown how
wrongly the A.C.E.C. is constituted. The great majority of its members are
officials.

Ipropose that the Politbureau pass a decision:

"Torecognise as essential that no less than 60 per cent of the
   members of the A.C.E.C. should be workers and peasants not occupying any
   official posts in government bodies; that no less than 67 per cent of the
   A.C.E.C.’s members should be Communists; a three-man commission consisting
   of Comrades Kalinin, Yenukidze and Kamenev, be directed to work up this
   question for the next plenum of the C.C. To be passed first through the
   Politbureau, then to the Plenum of the C.C. for enactment by the next
   All-Russia Congress of

   Soviets.[1]

"Torecognise as essential that no less than 60 per cent of the
   members of the A.C.E.C. should be workers and peasants not occupying any
   official posts in government bodies; that no less than 67 per cent of the
   A.C.E.C.’s members should be Communists; a three-man commission consisting
   of Comrades Kalinin, Yenukidze and Kamenev, be directed to work up this
   question for the next plenum of the C.C. To be passed first through the
   Politbureau, then to the Plenum of the C.C. for enactment by the next
   All-Russia Congress of

   Soviets.[1]

[1]ThePolitbureau discussed Lenin’s motion at its meeting on May 26,
1922, and decided to pass it on as material to the commission set up by the
C.C. to steer the work of the Third Session of the All-Russia Central
Executive Committee of the Ninth Convocation.